Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 08/03/2021
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  MAUCO - The Maule Cohort
Country
 

  • Chile

Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Molina County, Maule Region
Name
  Catterina Ferreccio
Institution
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Email
  cferrec@med.puc.cl
Do you want to add another Principal Investigator of the Cohort
 

  • Add another Principal Investigator of the cohort

Name
  Sandra Cortes
Institution
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Email
  scortesn@uc.cl
Phone
  +56992142381
Personal website
  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-1419
Website
 

  • https://www.mauco.org/

Name of committee
  Comité Ético Científico CEC Med UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Data access policy (briefly describe)
  To access cohort data, please complete the attached application form and send to Catterina Ferreccio cferrec@med.uc.cl, for evaluation by the MAUCO Advisory Board.
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  IHCC International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium, AGRICOH Consortium of Agricultural Cohort Studies
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Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).

Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  The main objectives of MAUCO are: (i) to analyze the natural history of chronic diseases, where outcomes of interest include cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental health, ageing, quality of life and respiratory diseases among others, and risk factors of interest include socioeconomic, lifestyle, environmental, genetic and ethnic factors; and (ii) to build institutional capacity for advanced research on chronic diseases, including a biobank.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort

Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: Regional

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population

Inclusion criteria
  Age 38 to 74 years, residency in Molina county for at least 6 months in the past year and plans to remain there for the next 3 years.
Exclusion criteria
  Inability to provide informed consent autonomously, diagnosis of a terminal illness.
Enrollment
  Ongoing
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
38 74 53.4

Men at enrollment
  4305 enrolled, aproximately 4600 expected
Women at enrollment
  5156 enrolled, aproximately 5400 expected
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  0
Men at last follow-up
  3199 first follow-up (ongoing), 1342 second follow-up (ongoing)
Women at last follow-up
  4083 first follow-up (ongoing), 2784 second follow-up (ongoing)
Children (<18 years) at last follow-up
  0
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Death certificate
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses

Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 

  • Follow-up visits are planned at 2, 4 and 8 years after enrollment, as possible during the 10-year follow-up.

Death certificate (specify)
 

  • Cause of death is obtained from death certificates for all participants who die during the follow-up period.

Hospital / Physician diagnoses (specify)
 

  • When a participants is hospitalized in a regional hospital, medical records are reviewed for diagnosis.

First follow-up period (provide year)
  2017-2024
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2022-2024
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  1-3
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
  • Questionnaire, Personal (Occupational/industry modules)
  • Industry-based questionnaire
  • Environmental samples

Occupational history/time frame
  Lifetime
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • Group 4-5-6-9 (CIUO 08)

Industry (specify coding system used)
 

  • CIIU

Types of exposure measurements
 

  • Biomarkers (see also section 5)
  • Workplace sampling

Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Data modelling
  • GIS (other spatial methods)
  • Expert assessment
  • Job Exposure Matrix
  • Measurements (external sampling, biomarkers)
  • Self-report

 

  • Other

Specify: Job Exposure Matrix / Other
  Pesticides
Website
  https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oki-water/science/pesticides?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-
Main categories
 

  • Dusts and fibres
  • Pesticides
  • Metals and metal oxides
  • Other chemicals
  • Biological factors
  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Psychosocial domains
  • Organisation of work including working time

Dusts and fibres | Fibres
 

  • Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)
  • Fibres (not specified)

Dusts and fibres | Inorganic dusts
 

  • Carbon black
  • Coal dust

Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts
 

  • Animal dust (from living animals or hairs of animals, e.g. raw wool, furs of minks, etc.)
  • Flour dust
  • Organic dusts (not specified)
  • Plant dust (includes plants, fruits, vegetables, plant-borne materials such as natural rubber)

Pesticides | Fungicides
 

  • Mancozeb
  • Maneb
  • Other (specify)

Pesticides | Fungicides | Specify: Other
  metals Cr-As-Cu
Pesticides | Herbicides
 

  • 2,4-D or 2,4,5-T
  • Atrazine
  • Glyphosate

Pesticides | Insecticides
 

  • Chlorpyriphos
  • Deltamethrin
  • Dimethoate
  • Organophosphates, not specified

Metals and metal oxides
 

  • Arsenic all types
  • Chromium (metallic chromium, Cr(iii), Cr(vi) and all compounds)
  • Copper
  • Lead and all compounds
  • Nickel and all compounds

Biological factors | Bacteria
 

  • Helicobacter Pylori
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Other (specify)

Biological factors | Bacteria | Specify: Other
  SARS-CoV-2
Biological factors | Moulds-fungi
 

  • Aflatoxins
  • Moulds

Biological factors | Zoonotic
 

  • Hantavirus
  • Leptosporosis

Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 

  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Repetitive work movements
  • Sedentary work
  • Standing work

Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 

  • Job control, autonomy
  • Psychological job demands
  • Social support at work from supervisors
  • Work engagement

Organisation of work including working time | Employment conditions
 

  • Contract duration
  • Job insecurity
  • Lack of access to benefits, collective bargaining, social protection
  • Low pay
  • Work contract type (i.e. permanent, term-contract, subcontract, temporary)

Organisation of work including working time | Working hours
 

  • Duration
  • Regular/variable

4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Death certificates
  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  lipidic profile - biochemical profile
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Death certificates
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  peack flow - ECG - echocardiogram
Specify: Biomarker
  lipidic profile - biochemical profile
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • C + D Neoplasms
  • E Endocrinological disease
  • E Malnutrition and obesity
  • E Metabolism disease
  • F Mental disorders
  • H Disorders of the eye
  • H Disorders of the ear
  • I Heart disease
  • I Cerebrovascular diseases
  • J Respiratory disease
  • K Diseases of oesophagus, stomach, duodenum and appendix
  • N Kidney, renal pelvis disease

C + D Neoplasms
 

  • Carcinoma in situ
  • Leukemia
  • Malignant neoplasms gastro intes. system including liver, gall bladder, pancreas
  • Malignant neoplasm lung
  • Mesothelioma
  • Other malignant neoplasm of respiratory and intrathoracic organs, heart, pleura
  • Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage
  • Malignant neoplasm of breast
  • Malignant neoplasms, females gynecological
  • Malignant neoplasm of urinary tract and kidney
  • Malignant neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands

E Endocrinological disease
 

  • Thyroidea
  • Diabetes mellitus

E Malnutrition and obesity
 

  • Obesity

E Metabolism disease
 

  • Disorders of sphingolipid metabolism and other lipid storage disorders
  • Hypercholesterolemia

F Mental disorders
 

  • Dementia
  • Mood [affective] disorders
  • Depression
  • Other mental disorder, not otherwise specified
  • Other, please state

I Heart disease
 

  • Hypertensive diseases
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Chronic ischaemic heart disease
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Atrioventricular arrhythmia
  • Heart failure

I Cerebrovascular diseases
 

  • Cerebral infarction
  • Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Arterial embolism and thrombosis

J Respiratory disease
 

  • Viral pneumonia
  • Pneumonia due to other infectious organisms, not elsewhere classified
  • Acute bronchitis
  • Acute bronchiolitis
  • Chronic rhinitis, nasopharyngitis and pharyngitis
  • Chronic Bronchitis
  • Emphysema
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Asthma
  • Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Respiratory failure, not elsewhere classified

K Diseases of oesophagus, stomach, duodenum and appendix
 

  • Oesophagitis
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
  • Other diseases of oesophagus
  • Gastric ulcer
  • Duodenal ulcer
  • Peptic ulcer, site unspecified
  • Gastrojejunal ulcer
  • Gastritis and duodenitis
  • Dyspepsia

N Kidney, renal pelvis disease
 

  • Nephropathy
  • Renal failure
  • Urolithiasis
  • Cystitis

Other health related outcomes
 

  • Lifestyle change
  • Quality of life/wellbeing
  • Sickness absence
  • Work participation

5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
  • Hair
  • Sputum
  • Urine

Biological processing
 

  • DNA

Genetic and other lab analyses
 

  • Genomics / GWAS

Comments
  Biobank available for measurement of specific biomarkers
6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Environmental, air pollution
  • Environmental other (specify)
  • Medical history
  • Physical exercise
  • Residential history
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking

Specify: Environmental other
  pesticides and metals in biomarkers
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 

  • Cancer incidence
  • Hospital discharge
  • Mortality register

Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded
  We are applying for funding on pesticides exposure and some biomarkers in the group of agricultural workers related compared with workers from other areas